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Each year thousands of web professionals come together at Web Directions conferences in Australia, the US, the UK and Japan to learn, connect and share their passion. Experience the web with us.

The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open

Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excel­lence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you’re respon­si­ble for a web site launched or sig­nif­i­cantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recog­ni­tion for its adher­ence to web … Read more »

Introducing Amped, the hackday, reloaded coming to Atlanta and Sydney

When you hear about the lat­est web tech­nolo­gies and tech­niques do you ever think “damn, I wish I could play with these right now”?

Enter Amped — the Hackday, reloaded.

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We’ve taken the tra­di­tional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what’s great, what’s … Read more »

Learn CSS3 with John Allsopp

Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, start­ing today, August 16. It fea­tures screen­casts, exer­cises, arti­cles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks.

We cover selec­tors, prop­er­ties, media queries, and more in real depth — so if … Read more »

Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer

Want to work with some of the best devel­op­ers in Australia? Looking to develop world-​​class web­sites using the lat­est web tech­nolo­gies? Keen to be part of an organ­i­sa­tion that is a great sup­porter of the Aussie web industry?

SitePoint are in need of a tal­ented PHP devel­oper — … Read more »

Tech23 — for Australian Technology Innovators

Tech23, in its sec­ond year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on com­mer­cial tech­nol­ogy inno­va­tion. Featuring a com­bi­na­tion of insights from lead­ers in the tech indus­try, and a shootout for some seri­ous prizes by 23 early stage tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies, and all wrap­ping up with a great awards … Read more »

HTML5 Live, a two week online course from John

A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fan­tas­tic com­mu­nity for web design­ers and devel­op­ers, and pub­lisher of many excel­lent design and devel­op­ment books, I’ll be run­ning a two week course, online start­ing next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a … Read more »

More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the pod­casts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by mak­ing these avail­able, and we’d like to par­tic­u­larly thank our speak­ers for their generosity.

Help us make it all … Read more »

Three must-​​see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media

After any con­fer­ence we always do our best to share the love by cre­at­ing a pod­cast and resource page for each pre­sen­ta­tion from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small mat­ter of … Read more »

Web Directions South 2010

We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrap­ping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.

But our home will always be Sydney, … Read more »

SVG Contest closes Friday

Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” com­pe­ti­tion, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for build­ing an SVG but­ton, or progress control.

There’s plenty of great exam­ples you can learn from (remem­ber, “view source” is not a sin, it’s … Read more »